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" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

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Enrique Iglesias

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. "

" Politics are not the task of a Christian. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

" Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "

" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "

Marianne Williamson

" If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. "

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

John F. Kennedy

" I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. "

" As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. "

" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. "

" Good government is good politics. "

Richard J. Daley

" In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. "

" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "

" I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. "

" Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. "